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Originally Posted by MaDalton
and i still say that Idiocracy is a documentary that got accidentally sent back in time...
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Originally Posted by MaDalton
i can safely say that i don't recall one single song from him - i just remember him for stealing the microphone from Taylor Swift
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Same here.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Just listened to it. Pretty unspectacular.
Apparently it's Paul McCartney noodling around on a Fender Rhodes electric piano with Kanye singing.
Sort of like a demo for a song.
I was thinking it had Paul singing on it. But nope...just playing piano.  |
Kanye can sing?
I thought the only reason rappers rap is because they can't sing for the life of them.
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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis
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That article is pure shit, at best. Not arguing against its statements, but the only sources it cites are two Daily Mail pieces. Which is kinda like basing your arguments on pieces from The Onion.
Besides, only one of the two Daily Mail pieces actually discusses decreases in average IQ. If you read through it, it has a few contradicting statements as well. It references, in turn, to an article from the New Scientist, of which you can only read a paragraph, unless you pay for access. Even so,
they still seem to have gotten it wrong:
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An IQ test used to determine whether Danish men are fit to serve in the military has revealed scores have fallen by 1.5 points since 1998.
And standard tests issued in the UK and Australia echo the results, according to journalist Bob Holmes, writing in New Scientist.
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Yet the
New Scientist article they reference says this:
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IN DENMARK, every man is liable for military service at the age of 18. Nowadays, only a few thousand get conscripted but all have to be assessed, and that includes doing an IQ test. Until recently, the same one had been used since the 1950s. "We actually have the same test being administered to 25 to 30,000 young men every year," says Thomas Teasdale, a psychologist at the University of Copenhagen.
The results are surprising. Over this time, there has been a dramatic increase in the average IQ of Danish men.
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Not exactly the first time the Daily Mail fucks up.
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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
That's exactly the same attitude my grandparents likely had towards The Beatles when my mom started listening to them in the 60s.
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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
hardly a fair comparison. paul is a part of the history of modern music and kayne is just another rapper.
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Pretty much. The Beatles are arguably one of the most influential bands of all times. Kanye come, Kanye go, nobody will miss him and few will even remember him. He'll just be replaced by a new hot-as-shit-rapper-for-now.
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Originally Posted by MaDalton
actually I am not even a fan of the Beatles
and yes, i am intentionally ignorant when it comes to black dudes wearing gold chains, diamond grills, pants down and giving themselves stupid names.
people than can hardly pronounce one straight sentence in regular english but behave like they are the kings of the world - and stupid kids blindly admire them
it disgusts me
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Likewise. Never really got to like the Beatles, aside from a couple of songs. But the image and culture American rap artists promote is atrocious, at best.
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Originally Posted by SuckOnThis
Fair enough. Your mom sounds like she did a fine job in at least exposing you to some truly great music, but I personally think with very few exceptions there hasn't been any decent music put out for the past 20 years.
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That does depend a lot on the kind of music you listen to though. It also depends on how proactive you are in finding new music/artists in the genre you like.
I used to think just like you, but then I found some online radio stations playing my kind of music. I'm happy I did, because it's helped me discover tons of artists I would've never heard of otherwise. I would just've been stuck listening to my 20+ yo faves, bitching that music today is all shit.
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Originally Posted by His Infernal Majesty
I liked this post. Music industry today is in bad shape which is why there are more rap and solo artists being shoved down our throats. Doesn't mean it is all bad, just cheaper to produce.
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It's not necessarily because it's cheaper to produce. The music industry, just like the movie industry, isn't afraid to spend if it predicts it can make a nice ROI. It's more because young people today are way more familiar with rap and the like, so it makes financial sense to churn out more of that, because it makes money.
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Originally Posted by Ferus
I am glad you have found important stuff to bitch and fight over. Is this a webmasterforum or Jerry Springer?
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Is this a rhetorical question?
